Word: bert
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Harvard Dramatic Club presented yesterday a version of George Bernard Shaw's "Catherine the Great." In the above scene, Catherine the Great, played by Nancy Docekal '53 as Emerson, tortures Bert Karon '52 as Captain Edstaston with her shapley legs...
...Varsity fifties? They're about an average boat," Bert Haines, coach of the 150 pound crews, says casually. But observers around Nowell Boathouse call them the smoothest crews on the Charles...
...Thayer has been shining in the quarter-mile. Ed Grutzner has to make up for the sacrifice of a week of practice to a Glee Club trip and Lou Tsavaris is fighting a cold. Tom McGrath was one of the stalwarts of the strong winter mile-relay squads. Newcomers Bert Brown and Joe Walsh may help...
...Hughes libretto, Bert, mulatto son of a white plantation owner and a Negro housekeeper, puts his white half forward after he comes home from World War II. He begins mildly enough; he just drinks his Coke in the drugstore like anybody else, instead of taking it out back...
Then he defies his father, Colonel Norwood, by entering the big house by the front door. When his outraged father (Baritone Paul Elmer) threatens him with a gun, Bert strangles the old sinner before he can fire a shot. After that, the only thing left for Bert is to shoot himself before the libretto lynching party catches up with...